This is definitely an interesting discussion... one that, sadly, I don't feel like I can contribute very much positively - but I'll try anyhows... (sorry - this is long..)

Firstly, I think it's interesting we have a bit of the label issue coming up again - but I think in this discussion it is key. If you are wanting to get legislators, politicians, commercial interests, etc. behind any sort of rights, you have to both agree what the definitions (labels) are AND make it easy enough for the aforementioned schmucks that run countries, write legislation and vote them into enforceable statutes... If we can't agree between us (not that we're anybody other than just a discussion forum, after all...) then who else will understand..?????

And we can't seem to agree - the OP states things like 'T-spectrum' ; 'T community' - sorry, but what do these things mean?
Then we have the CD vs TG vs TS wrangle.... and it is a wrangle, and I understand why - because at one end, the closeted/ fetish CD doesn't need any new rights... existing rights serve them perfectly well, imho.

At the other end - TS should be adequately protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (you are, after all, human...) and other national laws - but getting those rights recognised and acted upon requires votes - from legislators and politicians... who in turn derive their tenure from votes from the populace (in simplistic terms) - Kate H has hit on this point already - unless you can make it easy for people to understand what you're asking for, and unless you can get people to agree with the sense of injustice, you'll get nowhere. How do you get them to listen? Simple definitions and message + NUMBERS... There's the next challenge that Paula's highlighted... very few TS folk - not a good economic bet...

So let's pull in the TG folk... Ahhh - my sector - or is it? We can't really agree on that either. If you have no gender uncertainty, are you TG? (Thanks Isha...) Well, I think so - but who the heck am I? I have no uncertainty that I'm male, and no desire to be different. I appear to make a curiously good female (crude appearance measure!) and I feel good about it, but I don't know why...?!
Is it more than a fetish? Absolutely.
Do I need to take my feminine portrayal into public? Absolutely not. (I might one day - but I'm pretty sure I don't need to)
Do I think I'm TG? Absolutely yes - because wtf I am doing this for otherwise!

But - how do you draw a line between me and - say - Lucy Bella? There surely are no physiological tests for this, and there probably aren't even any reliable psychometric tests to prove this either...

So...
Can't agree between ourselves...
Can't make it easy for others to understand...
Can't agree on definitions...
Definitions can't be proven with anything approaching anecdotal, let alone, scientific certainty...
We as any sort of community don't have the numbers to swing this anywhere...

Which leaves me on the sidelines and in the closet with mutt... If anything, our homework has to be to get all that straight with ourselves, before we go out to find our 'die in a ditch' position...

So HOW and WHEN does that happen...?

BTW - I totally support the ideal that these rights should be there... but it will take a lot more clout to make it happen...

Katey x